Sentences with phrase «which build our character»

«Paul Tough's excellent new book... rises to the top of the parenting book pile for its deep exploration of failure and the ways in which it builds character in our kids.»

But Paul Tough's excellent new book, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity and the Hidden Power of Character, rises to the top of the parenting book pile for its deep exploration of failure and the ways in which it builds character in our kids.

I noticed how everyone of us has different layers, which build our character and personality.

«Paul Tough's excellent new book... rises to the top of the parenting book pile for its deep exploration of failure and the ways in which it builds character in our kids.»

Not exact matches

Now Twitter, which has 302 million active users, faces deep questions about the future of its messaging service, which is built around 140 - character snippets of text in a world that is increasingly about photos and video.

Think of the low - rise, high - density character of neighborhoods in Paris, London or Charleston, or any pre-1945 American town or city neighborhood, which are characterized above all by a beautiful, walkable, convenient public realm that more than compensates for their small building parcels.

And endurance builds character, which gives us a hope that will never disappoint us.

They may also wear «skins» (graphical avatars for their character), which are inappropriate or even disturbing and they might try to knock down your child's hard - built constructions.

«4 With the term ascription, built on the model of description, Hart focuses on a remarkable character of juridical statements: they can be contested, either by denying alleged facts or by invoking circumstances which can weaken, alternate, even annul the claim of a right or the accusation of a crime.

There is a limit which stands not only at the end of human life as death, but which is built into the structure of human life by virtue of its creaturely character.

These elements, along with the Gothic character of the purpose - built stained - glass windows and rood cross, provide a plausible context for the spolia, which can thus serve their purpose of adding value without stealing the show.

Wherever that may lead in daily vocation, in congregational commitments and in costly service to those waylaid on some Jericho road, the outcome is the same: gaining of soul, deepening and building the character which is tested by endurance and drawn forward in hope.

So you are contending that God allows some evil because it builds positive character in the victims or in others which outweighs the negative value of the evil itself (e.g., John Hick).

Why the kind and degree of deprivation and suffering which, far from building character, almost inevitably cause madness and depravity?

How Character - Driven Labels Are Driving Wine Sales: As the wine aisles swell with an ever - rising sea of brands, wine producers are looking to increasingly rich and imaginative narratives on which to build their brands...

«I am particularly taken with the ways in which he uses lacrosse as a means to build character and sportsmanship among the student - athletes he has developed,» Wickman said.

Motherhood adds a whole new dimension to her; a new component to her personality and character, which she steadily embraces as her baby grows inside her and she builds confidence in her new role and responsibilities.

Anya uses her manners and is very polite when speaking to the player which is perfect when teaching your children character building.

Over the last few years I have written four ebooks which can serve as practical tools to add character building into a family's everyday routine.

Much of his book concerns ways in which children from socially deprived backgrounds can be encouraged to «build» character traits that will help them overcome their disadvantage.

«We have brought a new motif to the design of the buildings, befitting the charm and character of the lake and wine region which is our home,» the release said.

► Preserve the existing character of buildings along Flushing Avenue by reducing the proposed rezoning from R7A to R6A, which would limit the building height.

His big idea — which has been called «narrative Lego» — is to shuffle a character's motivations like toy building blocks, so that a fresh story unfolds in every session of a game even though the characters are the same.

His big idea — which has been called «narrative Lego» — is to shuffle a character's motivations like toy building blocks, so that every session of a game has a different story unfolding even though the characters are the same.

Maicher's MFA thesis was based on developing «affect» in the virtual character, which he built in a computer animation studio and imported into a gaming engine.

By arming your children with good manners, you are creating a foundation from which to build a strong character.

If you have a good workout routine, as well as the physical benefits of exercise, one of the other qualities which is sometimes overlooked but is arguably more important is the character building benefits you can obtain.

The plot of the film is not very different from the Universal classics: mad scientist, longed to resurrect the dead, comic character much alike Abbott and Costello, beauty who of course is taken by the «monster» (which is the Wolf Man), the climax with a burning building, while the battle of protagonists with a monster is going on and, of course, a happy ending.

Premier Sports Blog exist to talk about the different aspects in athletics in which can be implemented into the athletic environment in order to build a positive, character - driven program!

It's as if Haley viewed his star's strengths — laconic wit, unforced masculinity, polite romanticism — as the only elements needed for a Sam Elliott showcase, rather than as the building blocks from which to mold an original character.

Filled with stylistic directions and storytelling along with enticing dramatization of the characters, this season give fans everything and more, which continuously builds up this acclaimed series.

Beard, the writer, spent more time developing characters which are disappearing around the story than building a story itself.

Mikkelsen and Vikander are given the opportunity to build more rounded, fuller representations of their characters off of the page which pays off big time in that final act, but Folsgaard's performance is practically one money scene after the next.

Unlike video game adaptations like the Tomb Raider series or Assassins Creed, which have to contend with years of accreted mythos and complicated character - building, Rampage was always going to be on pretty safe ground, as long as it featured a giant ape, lizard, and wolf pounding some buildings to powder.

didn't really where they'd take the story, the first season set a high standard in execution and this carries forward into this season, everything you expect from the first is in this second with the dial turned up, with the characters developed from the first season this season just allows the writers to build up on that, the story is well crafted, less of Rinoa Rhyer's over the top screaming which did amazing things for my ears and sanity, great story progression, although slow at the start it ended with a bang.

The things that the team find inside the Shimmer are frightening and bizarre, building up to a climax in which one character turns into a ball of light and another is trapped in a pas de deux with a mercury - skinned mimic.

There isn't a single character in it for whom it builds up the slightest sympathy — and there isn't a great deal else in it for which you're likely to have the least regard.

The dialogue between the characters however is actually quite good, the relationships built in the film feel real which says a lot in a film that is absent a coherent story.

What separates «Gosford Park» from films like «Nashville» and «Short Cuts,» however, is the lush set direction and costume design, which helps build the completely immersive period setting for the audience to get to know the characters in.

Even the great Lili Taylor, as Ellen's birth mother, gets insufficient screen time to build to the strange emotional climax in which her character is involved.

Rihanna's «We Found Love» is the grandest of the musical juxtaposition this film has to offer, but other tracks like Sam Hunt's «Take Your Time», The Raveonettes» «Recharge and Revolt», and E-40's «Choices» help build the world and characters in which filmmaker Andrea Arnold is creating here.

Other notable French actresses, such as Nathalie Baye, Juliette Binoche and Sandrine Bonnaire, also continue to build upon substantial careers in which they have portrayed a variety of complex characters.

Streep's early scenes play like a bit of warm - up for both the character and the star, the nasty shtick beginning to take hold in loud, scurrilous moments that build until we reach the big dinner scene, a sort of decrepit centerpiece for the whole picture during which Violet insults every damn person at the table and especially aims to tear each of her daughters apart.

Despite using similar, generic fantasy terminology, both previous Dark Souls titles had slight differences in which stats your character could build up and what those individual stats determined.

But alas there's no such thing as a single - strand narrative in a modern universe - building epic, which has a studio mandate to look backwards, forwards and sidewards at characters who could be spun off into other movies.

Unfortunately, there is no good way to make these characters truly diverge from one another, so you are stuck with selecting a base fighting style from which to build your monstrosity.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

The main location was an actual house from the 1890s that had been built into the side of a hill, providing the perfect setting for a story in which the hard - scrabble pioneer lifestyle is central to character motivations.

This movie is, in - essence, a 123 - minute trailer for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part Two as it spends a great deal of time getting us up to speed with our protagonists and accustomed to new characters whilst building toward the film's only true reveal which is certain to have fans lining up to see the final instalment.

The story builds toward scenes in which the captured Tris is hooked up to a device that causes her to hallucinate and puts her character through the severest of tests.